August 13, 1914
graphite pencil on commercially-made lined paper
5 13/16 x 3 11/16 inches
Burchfield Penney Art Center courtesy of the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation, 2000
commencing to “turn”.I can imagine no more miserable person that he who has attained his ideal.Observe the vines. We have in our yard a hopvine, which climbs a pole before it attains the top it is fresh big & strong. Having come to the top the “shoots” wander aimlessly about & finally fall down, climb the pole again & so continue until nipped by the frost. The top is stunted and I imagine the fruit is smaller than if the vine had been able to go on up. So it is with the morning-glories.(HT)We should then climb